Sugar cookies are a simple to make, delightfully sweet, melt-in-your-mouth snack to bake for the holidays or simply to enjoy as a sweet snack during your evening tea time. If you’re looking for an easy-to-make cookie recipe, look no further. When adorned with icing or frosting, this cookie will not only be a pleasure for your taste sensations, but it will also be visually appealing. This icing-on-sugar cookie recipe is everyone’s favorite since it keeps its shape. As a result, a cookie cutter may be used to cut it into any form.
Why everybody love sugar cookies?
- Delicious! Not too thin, not too thick, soft and chewy! They also last for DAYS.
- The centers are soft and chewy while the edges are crunchy making it a perfect cookie recipe
- Adding softened butter and vanilla extract makes the cookies irresistibly buttery- vanilla flavored.
- If the preparations are done well it will hold the shape well
- The top surface of the cookies are so flat making it an ideal surface for decorating
Tips to bake perfect cookies
- Do not grease the cookie tray because this may cause your cookies to spread excessively. If the cookie dough sticks to the tray, either the dough or the pan may be defective. It’s the perfect replacement for the blackened tray. If greasing isn’t possible, use a baking mat or parchment paper instead.
- When purchasing a new baking tray, choose light-colored trays. Darker trays absorb more heat, resulting in burnt cookies.
- Overspreading of the dough on the tray might be caused by incorrect flour and ingredient measurements. Not only that, but the cookie’s texture and flavour will change as well.
- To soften the butter, do not heat or microwave it. Instead, let it sit at room temperature for 15 minutes. Just 15 minutes would suffice, neither too little nor too much.
- To prevent the cookie from getting hard, use powdered sugar instead of flour on the working area.
- When baking cookies, do not rotate the Biscuit tray.
Nutrition facts
Nutrition
Calories: 173kcal, Carbohydrates: 24g, Protein: 2g, Fat: 8g, Saturated Fat: 5g, Cholesterol: 29mg, Sodium: 169mg, Potassium: 55mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 13g, Vitamin A: 249IU, Calcium: 20mg, Iron: 1mg
Ingredients
1. 1 cup butter softened
2. 1 and ½ cup granulated sugar
3. 1 large egg
4. 1 and ½ teaspoon vanilla
5. 2 and ¾ cup all-purpose flour
6. 2 teaspoons baking powder
7. 1 teaspoon salt
Sugar does a lot more than just satiate your appetite. Sugar keeps baked goods soft and moist, and it has a purpose other than just satiating our desire. Sugar’s interaction with water allows it to retain moisture, which helps to keep cakes, muffins, brownies, and frostings from drying out too quickly. It adds crunch to the meat, tenderizes it, and enhances the color and flavor.
Softened butter: Melted butter when mixed with sugar cannot cream properly can result in flattened, over-spread cookies. Whereas, softened butter when mixed with sugar is capable of holding air and traps the air inside the butter. This produces fluffy baked goods compared to melted butter.
Eggs: To make a soft and chewy sugar cookies, the eggs should be beaten and aerated.
Vanilla extract, like alcohol, evaporates and cooks down when heated. When making sugar cookies, add the vanilla else, it will evaporate and lose flavor, or it may completely vanish if added too soon.
Baking powder: A small amount of baking powder, which aids in the creation of the perfect soft inner texture and crisp edge on the cookies
How to bake Sugar cookies?
Step 1:
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. To bake the sugar cookies, prepare the SunBrand biscuit tray.
Step 2:
Using an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar in a large mixing basin until frothy and light.
Step 3:
Beat in the egg and vanilla extract until the mixture is smooth. One by one, crack the eggs into the mixture.
Step 4:
In a separate basin, combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Now mix the two bowls together until everything is nicely blended.
Step 5:
Roll out the dough to a thickness of 1/8 inch, then cut out the cookies with a cookie cutter and place on a Sunbrand cookie pan.
Step 6:
Bake the cookies at 375°F for 6-7 minutes, or until they are gently browned all over.
Step 7:
Allow to cool, then serve it after icing.
How to make icing for sugar cookies?
Ingredients: Powdered Sugar, whole milk, light corn syrup, vanilla extract, and pinch of salt.
Method: Simply put all of the ingredients in a large mixing bowl and stir until smooth. If the icing is too thick, thin it out with a tablespoon of milk at a time. If it’s too thin, add a little more powdered sugar until you get the texture you want. If you drizzle a little icing with a whisk, it should hold for a few seconds before melting back into the icing. That means you’ve achieved the desired consistency and are ready to use.
Color the icing: To achieve a bright white icing add a few drops of clear vanilla extract. If you want to add other colors to your icing whisk it with some colored food dye.
How to store the icing? Refrigerate the icing up to 3 days and allow the icing to come to room temperature before using it. Fully dried sugar cookies with icing can last up to 15 days in room temperature. In refrigerator it can be stored for 2 months.
Have a nice time baking this simple sugar cookies with icing recipe!